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Article Title: The Hidden Handicap – the Silent Epidemic
Submitted by: Craig Lock
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The submitter's blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com and http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com
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(Personal growth, self help, writing, internet marketing, spiritual, 'spiritual writings' (how 'airey-fairey'), words of inspiration and money management, how boring now, craig)
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I hope that the following piece may be informative to others. This article (as with all my articles) may be freely reproduced electronically or in print. If through sharing a little of my experiences, it helps anyone "out there in the often very difficult, but always amazing 'journey of life' in any way, then I'm very happy.
"We share what we know, so that we all may grow."
Craig Lock
October 2005
Some introductory comments re the title of this article
* because it can't be seen and brain /head damaged people look perfectly "normal" (what's that!).
NB: NO, I don't necessarily see it, this label as a 'handicap', but rather as an opportunity for personal growth.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed* of an equal or greater benefit."
– Napoleon Hill (in his great book 'Think and Grow Rich')
* this should perhaps read "rather the POTENTIAL seed" in cases of head (brain) damage
Some Practical Issues in Dealing with Head Injury.
Head Injury: Some Facts
1. Lack of Insight
2. Memory problems
3. Poor concentration
4. Slowed responses
5. Poor planning and problem-solving ability
6. Lack of initiative- often incorrectly labelled as "lazy"
7. Lack of flexibility – a "one track" mind
8. Impulsivity
9. Self-centredness
Head injury is the greatest cause of disability under age 40. There are devastating effects of brain injury on people's lives. With it come unique problems and effects – long term.
The presence of cognitive or personality problems have a large bearing on whether work is possible for the person. Even part-time work. Although the person's cognitive deficits may be subtle, they can be hugely significant; yet no less disabling.
IDENTIFY the person's strengths and weaknesses and devise practical strategies to avoid weaknesses. Then FOCUS ON STRATEGIES to alleviate and circumvent the problems as best as the person can.
An excellent book is 'Living with Head Injury'
by Dr Martin D. Van Den Broek.
Limited attention span and amazingly fatigued by simple tasks. The victim of severe brain trauma may cause surprise, if he or she appears exhausted by his work; because by then he may have no outward sign of the injury.
Fatigue has probably been the most significant factor in my life following my accident. My entire life has revolved around and been shaped by adjusting to that chronic tiredness and getting through each day.
They may not be quite the people they once were. In subtle ways they will be different; although the change may only be apparent to their closest relatives. The world, however, will see them as, and expect them to be "normal" (but then, what is "normal"?).
Some Common Effects of Head Injury:
* Lack of insight, lack of judgement
* Short term memory: There is a change in intellectual functioning. The sufferer may become confused, appear vague and avoid certain situations.
* Personality change. Avoid labelling them as lazy.
* Boredom and an apparent lack of interest.
* Dysphasia: May have trouble speaking, finding the right words, putting them together to make a sensible sentence. Often I wanted desperately to say something; but was quite unable to say the words. A big "jumble"!
Physical difficulties:
Weakness on one side with one's muscles, problems with motor control, loss of coordination, poor balance.
Cognitive (or intellectual) difficulties:
* I find it hard learning new things. Problems with attention and concentration???
* I experience great difficulties with information processing and with the speed of the processing, ie. especially difficulty with complex ideas and with shifting from one idea to the other.
* I have great difficulties with planning and organisation and put a big effort into that area to get by. The daily trials and tribulations of life!
* Slowness of thinking and to think logically. Less common sense than normal people!
All these effects cause me great frustration at times…and sometimes far more than others.
* Personality changes
* Visual inattention – unobservant.
* Very impulsive. Don't think things through much.
NOTE: The following information has been supplied by the New Zealand Neurological Foundation.
Thank you.
Damage to your brain can affect everything you do. It may affect physical activities: hand strength and skills, balance, walking and running. What many people don't realise is that adverse long term effects can also occur after quite mild injuries, like being knocked out at football. I'm amazed at how many rugby players suffer numerous concussions, and still continue playing. Must be very bad for them…and Francois Pienaar (former Springbok rugby captain and World Cup winner in 1995, as may be seen in the film Invictus starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.) is still a very nice guy and perfectly "normal". But look after yourself, Francois, your country still needs you.
Thank goodness the rule makers now have imposed an automatic two week ban (or perhaps it is longer) for rugby players, who have been concussed.
People who are recovering from head injury usually have problems with:
* Concentration
* Memory
* Organisation
* Irritability
* Fatigue
* their emotions
All these problems can occur after mild injuries, as well as serious ones. After severe head injury the control of FATIGUE and STRESS is the key to managing recovery. Fatigue damages all other functions and it's management is the most important single factor in returning to work after severe head injury.
I have found coping with my chronic fatigue my biggest challenge throughout my life!
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The parts of thinking that matter here are concentration, memory, organisation, self-control and fatigue. We'll talk about them separately, though they all interact on each other.
Concentration and attention are words, which describe how you can keep your mind fixed on what you're doing. It's vitally important; because most of the other functions of the brain, that we're concerned with depend on it. As an example, if you don't concentrate on what someone is saying, you won't remember what they said. As well as this, concentration is linked to the speed at which you can deal with information by processing it. Concentration is impaired for some time after all head injuries, where consciousness has been lost. It can also be impaired, when there has been no loss of consciousness – for example, in the whiplash sort of accident. As part of fixing your mind on the matter at hand, concentration requires you to shut out distractions. If you're not doing this well, you will find that other peoples voices, music in the distance or someone fiddling with a pencil will make you lose concentration…and at the same time probably make you angry and fatigued.
There are several sorts of memory. The recall of trivial things, that have happened in the last hour or two is recent memory. When it is impaired, you forget where you put your spectacles, who came to lunch, or what you had to get at the shops. It will be bad, if your concentration is poor. Events that you would expect to remember days or weeks later are stored in our long term memory. Things you do repeatedly, either as everyday routines, or as part of your professional skills, are called 'overlearned' and are firmly fixed in this part of memory. Head injuries almost always affect memory to some extent. Immediately after the injury, for minutes, hours, or days, depending on the severity of the injury, the human brain stops recording passing events. Though you may have recovered consciousness and be able to answer quite searching questions about your surroundings, this is not being stored in your memory – you are in a state of post-traumatic amnesia. When you start recording events again, you will find that there is a gap in memory from the moment of the accident. Occasionally "short islands" of memory remain; but the rest never comes back. It's not surprising that after this period of complete failure, memory should take some time to recover. The worst difficulty is with memory for events occurring in the last hour or two, or the last day or two. This results in trivial annoyance: 'where did I put my spectacles?' With more serious disability, important information is forgotten and appointments missed. Longer term memory is also affected: both storing new memories and recalling old ones. Both sorts of memory depend very much on the person's states of fatigue, focus and concentration. For example, it is far more difficult, when you're tired or surrounded by distractions.
Some people start the day knowing exactly what they have to do and the order in which to to the various tasks. They can re-organise their schedule, if the original plan is upset. Others are less confident; they need to think it out and then write a list of activities. After a head injury people are usually even less sure of how to organise themselves and plan their day – unless they concentrate on what needs doing and write a list, "bits and pieces" will be forgotten. Even then, if anything goes wrong, they're "thrown". That's me! As a result, it may seem as if they are lazy, or to have lost their motivation.
Self control:
Dealing effectively with something that annoys or threatens you needs a brain that functions quickly and efficiently. One which can retain an instinctive angry or even violent response. After head injury, people find it difficult to cope with the little annoyances of everyday life and tend to snap back…and this, of course, is worse when they are tired.
To get on with people, at home and at work, you need to be able to look at your own behaviour realistically, and to read other people's reactions to you from the subtleties of what they say, or their body language. This is a complex and difficult skill and after head injury, may be too much to manage. This can show up as inappropriate behaviour towards others, perhaps undue familiarity, or neglecting ordinary social rules. The other important result of losing insight is that you may become unrealistic about how much your abilities have been affected, and be unwilling to accept advice or warnings.
People normally adjust the amount of work they do each day and their hours of rest and sleep; so that the next day they can follow the same pattern without becoming tired enough to affect their efficiency. If there is extra work that just has to be done, they can push themselves to complete it; though they may need to go to bed early that night and feel tired the next day. Yet they can carry on in spite of this. I usually wake up tired, (even though I'm in bed each night by 8 pm or 8-30pm at the latest – "midnight cowboy"!), as I push myself really hard with my writing! After a head injury, the amount of energy that you have is limited. To begin with, you will probably be able to cope with only a few minutes of concentration, either listening, talking or reading. If you try to press on and do more, the effort becomes too great, and soon you'll find that you just can't go on. As you recover, longer periods of concentration are possible; but the barrier at the end remains.
If you can live with this chronic fatigue, and stop just before you meet the 'barrier', then take a rest. I find by taking frequent breaks we can surprise ourselves and often achieve a lot. If you neglect the signals and do more than this, your fatigue will accumulate. A 'good night's sleep' won't be enough for you to recover and next day you will be washed out and good for nothing. That's me for sure, when I "push" myself too hard!
It's like a bank account. You're given so much energy each day;
but if you overdraw, the next day you have less to start with and fatigue comes on earlier. Keep on and by the end of the week you'll be a wreck.
Author's Note:
Even sitting out here in the sun totally relaxed checking this manuscript, I feel really tired…but I'll push myself for a while longer.
You may find that physical activities and exercise may not be too tiring. For many people after head injury, physical activities, like gardening, walking or swimming, do not take too much out of them, and provide a welcome diversion.
It's not easy to get over the effects of head injury, and if progress is slow, you may get depressed. Because the injury will have reduced your control over your emotions, you will get upset easily. You may find yourself weeping for no reason. It's important to deal with the depression. Talk it over with your doctor. Support from family and friends, a therapist and sometimes counselling will help.
The problems described above are those which almost everyone encounters, when they have been affected by head injury. Some people have more specific difficulties with thinking – the common ones being concerned with finding and remembering words, or being able to deal with shapes, sizes, plans and locations.
In the early days after the injury, the medical examinations are geared to making sure that there are no complications to the injury, such as blood clots pressing on the brain. A CT scan may be needed at this stage.
As you get better, the important thing becomes the way your brain is working, and at this stage special tests of thinking are useful. Measuring your power of concentration and the speed at which you can deal with information is probably the best overall test of function. It's also a good guide to when you're ready to start with some type of work. Tests of your ability to organise are also useful for this. In the early stages screening tests may be done, to see if you have any of the special problems in thinking, that were mentioned above.
Sometimes I have a feeling of continual struggle to try and cope with the day-to-day complexities of the world??? Most frustrating. FFFFfflowers! A common reaction to these difficulties is to avoid the situations, to withdraw into a less complex and demanding environment. Avoid situations that cause you undue stress.
Through therapy and involvement in normal life situations, the patient may continue to recover for several years…in fact over the period of a lifetime.
An individual of forceful personality, with a high tolerance of frustration, showing high levels of enthusiasm, drive, persistence and determination, will win through in the end more successfully than someone of less robust temperament.
All the above information has been supplied by the New Zealand Neurological Foundation, which I'm sharing in the spirit of helping famililies afflicted by head injury..
Thank you for permission to re-use.
"We have it within; but we get it all from without. There is a well-spring of strength, wisdom, courage and great imagination within each one of us; but once we draw on this truth, it gets watered from without, by a Higher Source – the Source of Life and Love, which is God, the very Ground of our Being."
"When you can see no light at the end of the tunnel, light your own candle and let your light illuminate the world, like the radiance from a window at midnight."
That's a metaphor, BTW"
"The task ahead of you can always be overcome by the power within you…and the seemingly difficult path ahead of you is never as steep with the great spirit that lies within you."
"When the world is filled with love, people's hearts are overflowing with hope."
– craig
Craig has a long-standing head injury and has been researching and studying in this field over twenty-five years. He hopes that by sharing this information, it will make some difference in those lives affected by brain injury http://members.tripod.com/~lock77/www.craiglockbooks.com www.selfgrowth.com/experts/craig_lock.html
The various books that Craig "felt inspired to write" are available at
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and http://goo.gl/vTpjk
MY STORY, MY DREAM is available at http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Do-It-My-Way/ and as an e-book athttp://www.amazon.com/Ill-Do-It-Way-ebook/dp/B005GS6ZVO
AlsoLIVING WITH HEAD (BRAIN) INJURY (from 'MY STORY') * [Kindle Editionhttp://www.amazon.com/LIVING-BRAIN-INJURY-STORY-ebook/dp/B005IQMC0W/
The submitter's blogs (with extracts from his various writings: articles, books and new manuscripts) are at www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com and http://craigsblogs.wordpress.com
This article may be freely reproduced electronically or in print. If through sharing a little of my experiences, it helps anyone "out there in the often very difficult, but always amazing 'journey of life' in any way, then I'm very happy.
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Karnataka, May 19 (Compass Direct News) – Police on May 12 arrested Christians in Chennarayapatna, Hassan district on trumped-up charges of fraudulent conversions after a group of Hindu extremists attacked them. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at 3 p.m. nearly 25 assailants led by a Hindu extremist identified only as Lokesh barged into Sidda Vinayaka School, where members of Every Home Crusade ministry were holding a prayer meeting. The attackers beat pastors K.K. Ramesh and P.S. Anjaneya and falsely accused them of fraudulent conversion; the intolerant Hindus also snatched Bibles and hymnals, piled them up and burned them. A GCIC regional coordinator told Compass that three Christians identified only as 25-year-old Sangarasimha, 35-year-old Calton and Manjunath were beaten as they tried to protect women present. Manjunath was bleeding from his ear and from cuts on his face. Officers from the Chennarayapatna police station arrived at around 4 p.m. and, as is customary in India, arrested the victims of the attack. Along with Sangarasimha, Calton and Manjunath, officers took K.K. Ramesh and P.S. Anjaneya to a police station, and only with GCIC intervention were they released without charges that night at 10:45 p.m.
Orissa – Hindu extremists attacked Christians in Mondakai relief camp on May 11 in Kandhamal. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that, under cover of darkness, extremists beating drums and chanting Hindu devotionals tried to enter the camp where about 1,500 Christian refugees have stayed since last August's anti-Christian violence. The Hindu hardliners attacked Swasti Nayak, a Christian who was standing near the camp's main gate, leaving him with minor injuries. Police patrolling the camp intervened soon after, keeping the crowd of attackers at bay. Christian leaders met with state authorities to demand additional police protection. At press time, no additional forces were deployed.
Manipur – Alleged Hindu nationalists burned two church buildings in Phumlou and Phayeng on May 10 and another in Taolong on May 11. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that at about 10:40 p.m. on May 10, a newly organized group attacked the Baptist and Catholic churches in Phumlou and Phayeng and the next day attacked the Evangelical Churches Association building in Taolong. Gutted in the fire were parts of the buildings and furniture, pulpits, curtains, mats, microphones and sound system speakers. Madhu Chandra, general secretary of the All India Christian Council, told Compass, "A Hindutva-like communal force is suspected to be behind the serial attacks on churches targeting the Meitei Christians. We have submitted a memorandum to the state's chief minister expressing our concern and to take appropriate action." Police registered a First Information Report but no arrests had been made at press time.
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Himachal Pradesh – In Salon, Hindu hardliners on May 1 attacked and threatened pastor Suresh Masih Bhatti of the Believers' Church as he was working in the Subhathu area. A church representative told Compass that about six extremists led by Sunil Sheena stopped the pastor after he had visited church members' homes. The intolerant Hindus accused the pastor of forceful conversion, beat him and threatened further harm if he conducted future Christian meetings. The pastor filed a police complaint, and officers registered a First Information Report against the attackers. The Rev. Biju Solomon of Believers' Church in Salon told Compass that there was no attempted forcible conversion. "Hindu extremist Sunil Sheena made a public apology to the pastor and gave in writing that he would not repeat such things in future," he added.
Chhattisgarh – Members of the Chhattisgarh Sikh Youth Association on April 30 beat Jaspal Singh Saluja in Shyamnagar for converting to Christianity, according to a Compass contact. The extremists barged into Saluja's house at about 10 p.m. and assaulted him, also damaging furniture and household goods. The Christian received minor injuries. Saying he forgave the Hindu extremists, Saluja opted not to file charges against them.
Jammu and Kashmir – A 70-year-old pastor in Bashi Nagar village who was arrested on April 8 after a flurry of false accusations, from kidnapping to fraudulent conversion, was reportedly tortured while in custody. By the time radical Hindus had persuaded police to arrest A.K. Captain Samuel, officers were claiming the pastor of a 350-member church was a terrorist. Eventually police charged him under Section 153(A) of the Ranbir Penal Code for "promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and doing acts prejudiced to maintenance of harmony." Marcus Gill, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Christian Forum, told media that there was no case for fraudulent conversion, adding, "We condemn the arrest of the pastor, who is innocent . . . He was falsely accused and arrested without any proof." Christians in Jammu said the incident was part of a larger targeting of the Christian community. With police ordering him to halt his evangelistic efforts, Samuel was released on bail on May 14 on the condition that he leave Jammu. At press time, he had relocated to the state of Punjab but was expected to appear in court again on May 25.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 10:10 AM
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 10:33 AM
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Ours is a bit different. My daughter has been in the ICU for the past 8 weeks and will likely be here for another month or so. I would blow the entire thing on decorations and fun things for her hospital room. This very well may be her last Christmas, and since we have to be in the hospital, we are going to make it memorable!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:06 AM
I am looking forward to seeing my sons face glow! At 9 years old he is just this year understanding the magic of Christmas. He face lights up when he sees all the christmas lights so I can't wait to see him when he see Santa. Just seeing the Joy on his face is a blessing.ReplyDelete
Years ago people would walk the neighborhood singing Christmas carols. This tradition seems to have faded away. I am hoping to orgranize a group in our neighborhood to go Caroling! This ought to be interesting.
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I'm looking forward to baking Christmas cookies with my boys, sledding and playing in the snow.ReplyDelete
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Looking forward to sharing Christmas with my son for the first year he will starting to understand what it's about. His first time to sit on Santa's lap, bake cookies, string popcorn chains, decorate the tree, the daily advent calender- and presents!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:19 AM
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I got a surprise this week that my 19 year old son is going to be able to come home for Christmas after all! Not much can top that, both my boys home is the best present I could ask for:)ReplyDelete
I follow you on Facebook, maybe I should twitter but I'm scared to get sucked into something else.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Holidays to all!!
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- Wendy Fonseca wendyfonseca508 at comcast dot netDecember 2, 2011 at 11:56 AM
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I look forward to doing salt dough ornaments with my children this year. I love that it's a craft that my son can participate in by finger painting. Such a great gift for family too! Thank you Ellen!ReplyDelete
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I work in a Dairy Plant where we make Egg Nog and so does my husband. We have both been working overtime so I am looking forward to the week before Christmas when Egg Nog production halts and we can get our family groove on! I have a friend loaning us her dog sled so that I can sit our non-mobil son in it and take him to a local nature preserve this winter. We have snow here from the middle of December through the end of March on average so it should be a lot of fun!
I can't wait for Visits with Santa, and checking out all the Christmas lights and festivities in the DC Area!!!! I love this time of the year!ReplyDelete
the thing i am most looking forward to, we did last night. took my son to see santa. he finally has enough words that he was able to tell santa what he wanted for christmas ("bus", and "BIG train").ReplyDelete
We're planning a trip to the mountains of NC. Should be a good time!ReplyDelete
I am looking forward to Christmas morning with my family!ReplyDelete
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I'm looking forward to some extra family time spent at our own house with lots of family!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 1:20 PM
I hope the SA post person wins. If it is truely the child's last Christmas that hospital room needs decorated to the hilt.!!ReplyDelete
- Silvia RDecember 2, 2011 at 1:21 PM
I also am looking forward to sledging!ReplyDelete
- Silvia RDecember 2, 2011 at 1:23 PM
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Just discovered your blog a couple weeks ago! I LOVE IT!!! I am looking forward to my son's reaction to the Christmas Tree.ReplyDelete
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Cooking for our family, and two-sets of in-laws and heading up to the mountains for snow and sledding!ReplyDelete
I am throwing an "elf" party for my girls and their cousins where they are allowed to put m&m's and marshmallows on their pizza and syrup on their spaghetti noodles! Oh and we will watch the movie of course.ReplyDelete
elf party is so clever! and i want your egg nog factory commenter to give us a tour of the factory floor! and i agree, that SA deserves the most beautiful christmas with her family.ReplyDelete
i want to make pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with my girls, and the recipe for chocolate dreidls in family fun magazine (take a marshmallow. glue an unwrapped hershey kiss to the bottom with frosting. stick a pretzel stick in the top. dip the whole thing in chocolate. paint hebrew letters on it with frosting on a toothpick). and i want to see the Muppet movie and Hugo with the girls! and a $100 gift card shopping spree would be nice.
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM
I am looking forward to being with my 3 year old son and seeing his face light up on christmas morning. Nothing else matters, as long as my son is happy. I want to be able to give my son the best christmas ever this year. He deserves it so much, he is so sweet and dosent ask for much, and winning this gift card would help me buy him toys to play with. thank you so much for tis chance to win. firstname.lastname@example.com
Merry Christmas to you and your family! Max looks fantastic and is doing great! I have good luck on your blog and love following it too!ReplyDelete
I wasn't planning on putting up the Christmas tree until later (possibly even December 24th) but my 2 year old has been clamoring for me to put it up since just before Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to him and his dad assembling the tree, and I'm looking forward to going downtown to see the window displays, and I'm looking forward to friends coming over to eat cookies and drink eggnog laced liberally with brandy.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to hanging out at home with my kids over winter break without having to worry about being anywhere. That's my favorite.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:12 PM
Julie C-We always have to do one of those put together gingerbread houses or trains that look nothing like the pictures ha ha! But it is a tradition! I like "Love that Max" on Facebook!ReplyDelete
We love watching all the Christmas movies and cuddling on the couch.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:54 PM
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:54 PM
Last year the only thing the girls were into (they were 22 months) was lighting the candles on the menorrah. So for now, I'll go with that!ReplyDelete
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- Leigh-AnnDecember 2, 2011 at 6:12 PM
We go downtown with the grandparents and see all the beautiful Christmas trees they have decorated. Then of course little brother likes to visit Santa while his older brother (w/ special needs) hides with his Dad in the crowd to just get a peek.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to seeing the Christmas lights. Its a tradition!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM
I'm looking forward to hanging out with my brother and is family. He is a Marine and this is the first time he'll have come home in over 2 years.ReplyDelete
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Looking forward to new holiday experiences each day in my daughter's (2 year old) eyes. It's such a magical time and each day brings a whole new world of new experiences during the holidays.ReplyDelete
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Honestly? I just want a little snow. It would make the cold, frozen Minnesota ground look so much better. Then, my kids will be able to play in it, unlike last year, when they were too little. (They like mittens and hats this year too, so that's a plus.)ReplyDelete
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I am looking forward to decorating cookies with the kids! Such a fun tradition.ReplyDelete
Mostly, I'm just looking to relax and enjoy family. My parents are coming for a week, and we haven't planned any outings. I'd like to keep it that way. J is wishing for enough snow to sled. We just cleaned out the garage to make an "invention laboratory" for J & her Daddy, so I can't wait to give her some of the new tools we bought her (kid sized!) for Christmas gifts.ReplyDelete
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Looking forward to being off Xmas eve & day for the first time in over 17 years (healthcare). Won't know what to do!ReplyDelete
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I am looking forward to seeing my youngest two experience Christmas. My daughter just turned three and has cerbral palsy, so a lot of her "firsts" don't really happen until her "thirds" or "fourths". She's so cute though! Also, my youngest will be 2 in January so I think this will be an awesome experience for him. My 13 & 5 year old are ol' pros!ReplyDelete
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I look forward to watching my son bowl and going to a movie with my family.
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I think this year I'm most looking forward to doing all of the traditional things around the house with my kids; the baking cookies, decking the halls, and attempting to finally make a gingerbread house that doesn't collapse.ReplyDelete
I usually work Sundays and holidays, but I will actually have Christmas Day off, so I really look forward to it! I will enjoy having a nice Christmas dinner with my family.ReplyDelete
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I'm looking forward to camping with my family. Especially to waking up with my husband for coffee before the kids wake up and savoring it along with the sunrise, by the beach. YES! Bring it ON!ReplyDelete
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Our fun will be an unscheduled, therapy free week with family and friends! Local bounce house places, indoor playgrounds and hopefully some fun in the snow. :) Thanks for the opportunity! lys76 at msn dot comReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 8:44 AM
I love cooking a big breakfast after the kids have opened their gifts!ReplyDelete
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I look forward to visiting NYC, taking my daughter to see the skaters at Bryant Park, listening to my mother-in-law play holiday music and jazz on her white piano, celebrating my husband's b-day on Christmas (yes, he has a bit of a J-complex), and best of all, eating Chinese food, the food of my people, on Christmas day!ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to out of town company from MT and CO and Papa (my husband) playing Santa to all of our little ones with the help of our 5 yr old grandson being Santa's helper. And hoping to get those few perfect photo's of it all.ReplyDelete
- KrystalDecember 3, 2011 at 10:31 AM
Christmas Movies! I'm a grad student, so Netflix is going to be my solace after this is all done.ReplyDelete
I am looking forward to building a campfire in our fire pit with the snow gently falling, roasting marshmallows!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 12:39 PM
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- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 1:46 PM
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We like to drive out to the country and saw down our own Christmas tree. Followed by a meal out to a restaurant and cups of hot chocolate as we set up the tree in the living room.ReplyDelete
- Jenny SDecember 3, 2011 at 4:44 PM
I am looking forward to being at home with my kids! Getting a break from the running around, appointments & having quiet time (as quiet as that is with a 4&7 year old!) and playing board games, cooking and just hanging out.ReplyDelete
My favoite things in the winter are going for long walks in the snow blizzards and just spending time with family and friendsReplyDelete
We love to build snowmen and make homemade cookies and enjoy hot cocoa. We also love to snuggle up and watch family movies when the weather is bad.ReplyDelete
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My daughter is 10. This definitely will be her last "Santa" year; the writing has been on the wall for awhile, but this year so far she still believes in the Magic. So I am looking forward to one last morning of true Magic with both kids: she and her brother (who has a cognitive disability and is likely to go on believing for far longer) and the pure joy of childhood reflected in their faces on Christmas morning.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to exchange gifts. I really put a lot of thought into them and am excited to see reactions.ReplyDelete
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I am looking forward to baking cookies with my kids(and I hope they don't eat more dough than goes into the oven), decorating clear ornaments we got last winter in the clearance sales, introducing them to ice skating (and I hope they do better than I do!!) and having quiet days at home!ReplyDelete
We are looking forward to starting The Elf on the Shelf tradition, hanging lights outside for the first time, and just enjoying family.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 11:11 PM
I am looking forward to baking cookies with my family.ReplyDelete
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i just want to get my newborn son home from the hospital in time for christmas. He was born Nov 7th and we do not know if he will be home in time for his first Christmas. I can not wait to just sit with him by the tree and take lots of picturesReplyDelete
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I think most of all this year getting everyone together. I am looking forward especially to seeing Aunt Mary- we dont see her enough and she always gives great hugs!ReplyDelete
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We are looking forward to going to special holiday shows and events like the Nutcracker, a special Muppets movie and show at the historic El Captian theater in Hollywood and then a short family vacation in Palm Springs.ReplyDelete
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all I want for Christmas is Jack to find his family! he's an 11 yo orphan with HIV who said to the director "what do I need to do for a Mom to come? Do you know where she is? Is she looking for me?"ReplyDelete
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Every year our family has a Family Night, Christmas Edition. We have a fire in the fireplace and turn off all the lights in the house except Christmas decor and candles. Then we put a blanket on the floor and eat ice cream, because what's a family night without ice cream?! This s followed up by a fun family activity. One of our favorite traditions!ReplyDelete
I look forward to longs sundays home together baking cookies oh and the snow days when all the kids in the building get outside for some snow fun- snow ball fights, snowmen, sledding...etcReplyDelete
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- Suzy Y.December 4, 2011 at 8:10 PM
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I'm looking forward to making soft pretzels with my 4 year old. He's been begging for them!ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to the Christmas break so I can do some things with my grand kids - go into Boston to see the lights and go to the museum, go to a play, play in the snow (if there is any), ...... just be together.ReplyDelete
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Our girls (age 2 and 5) are finally "getting" it. They are so super excited about he season. Everything seems to be fantastical to them. It's delightful just to witness their amazement!ReplyDelete
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Chef Mark Green of Glatt A La Carte, always wanted to be a hockey player and even got a scholarship to play at Saranac in Upstate new York. Unfortunately he got hurt while playing, with his sports dream over he majored in art and photography.
After graduating from the New York Restaurant School, in 1982, Chef Mark spent the next 7 years as sous-chef at Club Med in Aruba. He did stints as Main Chef for the Divi Divi Beach Hotels in the Netherlands and the Antilles but came back to the US, eventually opening Glatt A La Carte, as Executive Chef, over 10 years ago.
He has graciously given us his recipe for a delicious, easy to make cake:
Portuguese Olive Oil Orange Pound Cake
Yields: 10 to 12 servings
Wet Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups extra virgin olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups orange juice, preferably freshly squeezed
- 5 eggs
Dry Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- zest of 3 oranges
- 1 cup confectioner sugar
- 2 teaspoons of orange juice
- Beat eggs lightly in large mixing bowl.
- Slowly add sugar to the eggs until light colored and thicken into a ribbon consistency.
- In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add orange juice to egg mixture.
- Mix until fully incorporated.
- Add olive oil and flower alternating little by little into egg mixture until fully incorporated.
- Mix until it becomes a nice batter with ribbon consistency.
- Mix zest into batter.
- Take a Bund pan and spray it with cooking spray.
- Pour batter into Bund pan.
- Bake at 350 F for 1:15 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.
- Cool for 30-60 minutes.
- Combine glaze thoroughly and drop on cake.
I've tried Chef Mark's recipe, both at the restaurant and at home, it's very good. Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!


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Schlagwort-Archive: nyc
Projekt caluso (Piemonte)
when you see the photo believed that I have used a filter but the effect after the tree is just fog.
The mysterious tree
Caluso (Piemonte)
Progetto 10×20 Riccione
The Sea in Riccione
A Photo in Riccione,settembre,2010
The ground in Germany
The vigna in Italy
A vigna in Italy (Piemont)
A blue Sun
This Photo i Made in Italy, Piemont (Ceresole)
The rose in the German-Park
This Photo I Made in Germany,Regensburg in a park.
The amazing rose
The amazing rose in Germany (Oberallgäu)
The leaves in Piemont (Turin)
The red flowers
This photo i made in a park in roma.


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In the United States, two out of every three searches go through Google, which serves up a total of three billion search queries per day. "Googling" has become so ubiquitous that the company has become a verb in English (and in other languages, too).
Given that most of us use Google several times a day and may also use it to send e-mail, to plan our calendar, and to make phone calls, questions commonly arise about how all of that data is used. Google has said that it needs access to such large amounts of data as a way to "make it useful" and to sell personalized ads against it—and to profit substantially in the process.
However, a March 2012 study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that two-thirds of Americans view a personalized search as a "bad thing," with 73 percent of those surveyed saying that they were "not OK" with personalized searches on privacy grounds. Another recent poll of California voters recently reached similar results, as "78 percent of voters—including 71 percent of voters age 18-29—said the collection of personal information online is an invasion of privacy."
Short of masking your online trail with a VPN or going through Tor all the time, it's hard to avoid the watchful eye of Sergey and Larry. What's a privacy-conscious Web searcher to do? For those who worry about such issues, privacy-minded search alternatives in various stages of development do exist—even if they're only taking the tiniest bite out of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo's search engine market share.
One of the top privacy search engines has a name reminiscent of a children's game: DuckDuckGo. The site was founded two years ago but has recently taken off; just last month, it hit an all-time record of 1.5 million searches per day and its daily search traffic has grown by 227 percent in three months.
So what does DuckDuckGo do differently, besides putting up cheeky billboards in San Francisco? DuckDuckGo works by using both its own Web crawler and data from other search engines, including Yahoo, Bing, and Blekko—but not Google. The company claims not to log IP addresses or user agents, and "no cookies are used by default." It also uses default encryption modeled after HTTPS Everywhere.
"Not really knowing about [what the other guys do], we independently made the decision that we wanted to go down this route of not storing this data," explained Gabriel Weinberg, the site's founder, in an interview with Ars this month.
"Search engines have a history of getting subpoenas, and Google has been more and more open to the requests that they were responding to," he said. "It seemed inevitable that search engines would get requests from law enforcement—I don't like that idea of handing over data."
Beyond that, the company started operating a Tor exit enclave not long after it launched, allowing traffic headed for the DuckDuckGo search engine to exit the Tor network.
"That makes it easier for people on Tor to hit our search engine and it means that we don't store stuff and you can ensure that it exits through us. You can be end-to-end anonymous on Tor," Weinberg added.
How does a site that makes a point of not tracking its users make money? Through contextualized search ads that generate "sponsored links." Not that Google's money machine should start to worry yet; Weinberg says that his for-profit company earned around $115,000 in revenue in 2011—with three employees and a handful of other contractors.
But Weinberg says he's patient. He believes that users will ultimately come to DuckDuckGo because it's a "better search experience," not just because of privacy.
"The problem is that [people] have never had a choice," he said. "They don't perceive that they have a choice. If you say: yes, you can go to this privacy search engine, they feel that they're sacrificing something for that. But I don't want to hamper my search experience. We've been trying to offer high privacy and a comparable or better search experience [than Google]."
Weinberg's not the only one saying it. Search Engine Land wrote last month that in terms of user experience and interface, DuckDuckGo "has begun to beat Google at its own game."
Beyond search watchers, privacy watchers have also taken notice. Nicole Ozer, the technology and civil liberties policy director at the Northern California office of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in San Francisco, told Ars that she's been watching DuckDuckGo for some time.
"Our position is that [the public] shouldn't have to choose between using new technology and keeping control of our personal information," she said.
Privacy-conscious Internet users may wonder about the verifiability of DuckDuckGo's claims. The short answer is that there isn't any good way to know if DuckDuckGo (or any other company) does what it says, short of the company releasing its source code. Weinberg has not submitted DuckDuckGo to an outside security audit, as he argues it would not add much in terms of convincing skeptics, but he notes in an online post that a company breaching its own privacy policy can lead to prosecution or sanctions from the Federal Trade Commission.
For many users, this is enough. "DuckDuckGo would be pretty dumb to breach their own privacy policy; their privacy policy is clear and unambiguous and leaves them little wiggle room," a user called D.W. posted in an online security forum a month ago.


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=Compton Experts=
=Compton Experts=
Revision as of 09:40, 6 November 2015
The Compton polarimeter can be used to non-invasively monitor the beam polarization. It has three major components: an optics table with a laser that can lock to a Fabry-Perot cavity; an electron detector to count scattered electrons; and a photon detector to count scattered photons. At present, the electron detector is in commissioning, so only the photon detector is fully functional.
There is additional documentation at Hall A compton webpage
- 1 Standard Compton
- 2 Compton Upgrade
- 2.1 Green Fabry-Perot Cavity
- 2.2 Photon detector
- 2.3 Portserver assignement
- 2.5 Electron detector
- 2.6 DAQ setups for Fall 2015
- 2.7 ==IOC iochacp2 boot parameters
- 3 Compton Meetings
- 4 Compton Experts
- 5 Past Compton Experts
Standard Compton
Monitoring the beam polarization using the Compton polarimeter requires two steps:
- Take Compton data. These can be long runs, but since you can only check the polarization after a run has ended, it is best to start a new run every hour or two. When you end a run, click "Submit" to dismiss the gray pop-up window.
- After a Compton run has analyzed (this takes about 10% the length of the run), check the logbook [1] for the Compton asymmetry.
If runcontrol shows that it can't communicate with a ROC or if the data won't analyze, stop the current run and type "coda reboot" into a compton@compton terminal window to reboot the ROCs and CODA. If the problem is with ER1, you will need to type
coda_er -n ER1
into a separate window.
See below for more details.
The Compton is run from the compton machine, which is the leftmost active monitor in the back room of the Hall A counting room. The login name is compton and the password is the same as the one for the adaq account.
To begin a new CODA instance, type
coda start
To recover from a CODA crash, type
coda reboot
To open a strip chart, type
StripTool HappexIIICompton.stp
To start a run, click the "Start" button in the runcontrol window. After a time, you should see the event count start to go up and the message "Transition Go Succeeded" at the bottom of the screen.
To setup the compton trigger parameters use the spyconf program :
One can select the different data taking modes in General Daq Setup.
On the right panel one can setup the photon detector parameters. We are using only the central crystal only.
On the bottom middle pannel, one can setup the electron detectors parameters.
number of planes needed to generate a trigger coincidence time windows between planes number of adjacent strips ored to be looked in the next plane for the trigger
When it is time to end a run, click the "End Run" button in the runcontrol window. A gray screen should pop up, giving you the opportunity to enter a message (say, if the beam was very trippy). Make sure you dismiss the window by clicking "Submit" -- not "Exit"! Hitting "Submit" sends the run to the analyzer, which is very important.
You may additionally get a pop-up window saying "End run failed!" on the runcontrol window. This is okay. Dismiss this popup window and click the "Reset" button on runcontrol. (Yes, despite the dire warning, you really do want to do this.) You should then be able to start the next run.
While running, you can monitor the beam current, photon rates, cavity status, etc using a strip chart. Here's what it might look like:
- Purple line: Beam current (uA). In the figure you can see that it has tripped a few times.
- Yellow line: Vertical beam position. This should remain roughly constant. A beam trip sends it to the top of the chart (position 0).
- Red line: Cavity power. This should be a square wave: the cavity is locked in the right polarization state, then turns off, then locks in the left polarization state, then turns off, then repeats. The powers for the right and left states appear different but are actually the same. The power should stay comfortably above 400 W. (Cavity will not lock during extended beam trips.)
- Blue line: Scattered photon rates in the detector. As in the figure, these should track the cavity on/off states; if you can tell from the blue line alone whether the cavity is on or off, then you are probably getting good Compton data.
- If this is not the case, this may be due to a bad tune resulting from very low current, or the Compton chicane is off. If one of these is not the cause, contact a Compton expert.
- If your blue line is zero or not displaying, there are three possible causes:
- Beam trip
- HV trip. Check the Beamline HV card 11. Channel 1 should be set to -1800 V for the GSO detector. If the HV is tripping over and over again, call a Compton expert.
- DAQ is not running. Start a CODA run and the blue line should come back. If CODA is already running, it may be in a strange state;
end the run and type "coda reboot" into a terminal to restart the ROCs and CODA, then start a new run.
Checking a Run
Compton analysis results are written to the Compton logbook, which can be accessed onsite at [1]
Find the run number (newest runs are at the top) and click the html link. (The pdf link does not work.) This will open a new window with the analysis results.
The full results will not display right away (because the analyzer does not finish immediately). It takes the analyzer about 10% of the runtime to complete. So an hourlong run will be analyzed after about 6 minutes.
The most important graph is about a third of the way down the page. You can find it quickly by searching the page for "Counting Rates". It's the graph titled Asym in ADC bins:
Here are the important things to look for:
- The green line (cavity off) should be consistent with zero. This shows that there is no asymmetry in the background.
- The red/blue lines (cavity on, right/left) should be roughly symmetric about zero. This reflects the fact that flipping the cavity polarization changes the sign of the asymmetry. (It's ok for there to be slight differences as above.)
- At the extremes (highest/lowest point) we should see an asymmetry greater than about 5%. (Here, we see extremes of about 8% and just over 6% for right and left.) If the asymmetry drops below 3%, we worry. Call an expert.
CIP Scan
Getting good data sometimes requires a CIP (Compton interaction point) scan, where the beam tune is adjusted slightly in order to maximize its interaction with the photons in the cavity. Call a Compton expert to perform such a scan if:
- There has been a new beam tune through the Compton chicane.
- The beam has been shut down for longer than an eight-hour shift.
- The photon counting rates drop drastically during steady running. (Compton rate (blue line) in strip chart -- see below)
Compton Upgrade
Green Fabry-Perot Cavity
to be updated soon...
Photon detector
The new photon detector crystal is a cylinder of GSO with a diameter of 6 cm and a length of 15 cm. It was installed in Hall A in December 2008.
In October 2008, the crystal was tested at incident photon energies of 20 MeV, 22 MeV, 25 MeV, 30 MeV, and 40 MeV. We are working on extracting the response function.
PREx requires an integrating DAQ system, which will run on a Struck FADC. We are currently commissioning this DAQ with a prototype FADC.
Homing the photon detector table
You need to put the photon detector in the right position before you can take data: How to home the table
New DAQ flags file controls
The FADC photon detector crl code lives in the franklin/crl directory. To change the running mode, link a run file to the fadcScaler.flags file. This is done by deleting the old fadcSclaer.flags file and then creating a link. To do this, type:
rm fadcScaler.flags ln standardRun.flags fadcScaler.flags -s
There are several different configuration flags files. These are:
standardRun.flags, for production data Etrigger.flags, for triggering the FADC on the electron detector miniMegan.flags, for miniMegan LED pulser runs test.flags, for playing around
There are several flags which can be changed in the file. These are:
- readoutWaveformLength (number of samples read out per trigger, should be 100 for production data)
- readoutWaveformStart (sample to start read out -- trigger should be near 0, so -50 centers a pulse in a window of 100)
- maxStoredWaveforms (number of waveforms stored per MPS)
- maxStoredSums (number of sums stored per MPS)
- bitPMTtrig (1 means triggering on PMT signal)
- bitEDetTrig (1 means triggering on electron detector)
- bitPulserTrig (1 mean triggering on 10kHz pulser)
- bitMiniMegan (0 means LEDs not flashing, 1 means flashing)
- bitDelta (0 means delta LED not flashing, 1 means flashing)
- VarDACsetting (0 means variable LED changing pulse amplitude; set it to some value to leave it constant, 35200 corresponds to a 250mV signal on the scope in the counting house)
- numADCchan (number of FADC channels read out as sums; generally 1 for the GSO, 3 reads out the fingers also)
- prescaleTrig (prescale on the trigger for sums; 1 turns off prescale)
- prescaleRand (random prescale on the samples; 0 turns off random prescale, 4 means that every 4 samples is random in time)
(Courtesy of Megan Friend )
Portserver assignement
cptsv1 20xx
2 cptaq1
3 cptaq2
4 cptaq4
5 cptaq5 6 cptps1 7 cptps2 ( RPC5 ROC1 on port 1 and ROC2 on port 2)
8 iochacp
10 iochacp2 11 TS crate
We are commissioning a new FADC-based DAQ for the photon detector. See run information.
Help with analyzing data from the FADC DAQ
Electron detector
Webcams address
Webcams were added to monitor the :
- hacp2 EthernetBlaster
- hacp3 webcam trigger
- hacp4 webcam on Beam Safety module, Front End power supply
- hacp5 webcam on silicon strips detector current
- hacp6 APC
- plug 1 Front End power supply
- plug 2
- plug 3
- plug 4 Webcam current
- plug 5
- plug 6 Ligh for viewer
- plug 7
- plug 8 Light for cameras
How to reboot stuffs
APC : hareboot4
*plug 2 webcam *plug 3 EPICS Edet *plug 4 ETROC *plug 5 ts crate *plug 6 FADC crate
login hareboot4 using the usual password ( if you don't know it ask the run coordinator or a Compton expert )
select the outlet you want to reboot with the pull down menu "Immediate reboot"
and wait for the IOC to come back
DAQ setups for Fall 2015
Updated Sept 29, 2015
There are mainly two DAQ systems for Fall 2015.
FADC_prod runs on the cpt1 session. It is for the CMU DAQ.
cntFadc1 runs on cpt2 session. It is the new counting-mode DAQ.
To start the CMU DAQ, type "startcoda" on compton@compton. To start the counting-mode DAQ, type "countFadc"
These scripts try not to stomp on each other, in particular not killing each other's processes. I don't have a lot of experience with this yet, but it looks, so far, like these sessions run independently. The "kcoda" script will, however, kill all CODA processes, regardless of the session.
==IOC iochacp2 boot parameters
boot device : dc unit number : 0 processor number : 0 host name : eosfs file name : /eossite/op/iocs/iochacp2/vx/vxWorks.st inet on ethernet (e) : 220.127.116.11:fffffc00 host inet (h) : 126.96.36.199 user (u) : vxwrks flags (f) : 0x80 target name (tn) : iochacp2 startup script (s) : /eossite/op/iocs/iochacp2/startup
Electron detector signals on patch panel
Output cable patch
2 48 24 5(5) 79 10 6(6) 56 20 7(7) 25
Analog 24 Analog 26
N6-38L Plan A ch 96 left N7-39L Plan A ch 96 right
Electron detector input signals
0 P0 Half of helicity flip frequency
1 P1 Helicity
2 P2 Laser on/off
3 P3 Laser helicity
4 Laser helicity inverted
6 Clear
7 Photon from integrating
Electron detector motion
Compton Meetings
- Friday, December 7, 2012 11am EST - Compton
- Monday, January 14, 2013 1pm EST - Compton
- Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3pm EST - Compton
- Thursday, March 28, 2013 1pm EST - Compton
- Wednesday, May 1, 2013 2pm EST - Compton
- Thursday, September 26, 2013 2pm EST - Compton
- Thursday, November 14, 2013 2pm EST - Compton
- Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11am EST - Compton
- Thursday, February 27, 2014 2:30pm EST - Compton
- Friday, April 4, 2014 2:00pm EDT - Compton
- Thursday, May 21, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Thursday, June 4, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Thursday, July 2, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Thursday, July 23, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Thursday, August 6, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Thursday, September 3, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Thursday, September 17, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Monday, September 28, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Monday, October 19, 2015, 11:00am EDT - Compton
- Monday, November 9, 2015, 11:00am EST - Compton
Compton Experts
|Dave Gaskell
|Alexandre Camsonne
|Ciprian Gal
Past Compton Experts
|Sirish Nanda
|Abdurahim Rakhman
|x5626 (Lab)
|315-391-4622 (cell)
|Megan Friend
|412-302-0576 (cell)


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CFR has a nice interview with Jason Stearns, DRC expert and author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters. Jason in part notes that:
This crisis has brought about a shift in international donor policy for the region, in particular criticism and financial sanctions against Rwanda, which is something that's new. However, using aid as leverage only makes sense in the context of a larger political process. Bashing Rwanda just for the sake of bashing Rwanda is not a solution. There needs to be a comprehensive political process into which that kind of pressure can be funneled and channeled. But there is no such process at the moment. What you have are talks mediated by a regional body—the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR)—that has the irony of being presided over by Uganda, which is itself playing a role in the conflict by supporting the M23. These talks have been largely limited to an evaluation of the March 23, 2009 peace deal, and the potential formation of a regional military force to deal with the FDLR and M23. But the causes of the crisis run much deeper and involve the failure of local governance, the weakness of the Congolese army, and the persistent meddling of neighboring countries in Congolese affairs.
This is precisely what informs my contention that there is too much focus on the international dimension of the conflict at the expense of the kinds of reforms that Congo needs in order to improve state capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest country.
You can't do business, implement a human rights regime, or even pretend to have democratic governance in a stateless environment (Unless, of course, you live in a state of nature in which everyone has capacity to defend themselves against aggression by others).
Some, including very serious and influential people, think that the solution to Congo's weakness is to plea with its neighbors not to prey on it. I disagree. I believe that the best solution ought to be the strengthening of Congo so it can deter its neighbors. The international community just wasted a good opportunity to force a cornered Kabila to agree on a peace deal that is self-enforcing, i.e., that reflects the power balance in eastern Congo.
As things stand the continuation of the power vacuum in the Kivus will continue to attract rebels, foreign-sponsored or not.
Also here is a glimpse of some of the actions by Kabila and his Kinshasa cabal which make it extremely unlikely that the situation in Congo will improve under his rule.


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Game On
"The best story I know of Bridalveil Falls," says Vince Anderson, "involves a couple of friends who ended up in an all-night chase through the forest, eventually eluding the police."
"The best story I know of Bridalveil Falls," says Vince Anderson, "involves a couple of friends who ended up in an all-night chase through the forest, eventually eluding the police." Some climbers who poached this iconic ice climb — has been closed due to its location on private property — weren't so lucky.
At least two of Anderson's friends have gone to jail for four pitches of ice-climbing heaven.
As of December 5, Bridalveil Falls (WI 5/6), a stunning icefall in Telluride, Colorado, is open for the first time since 2002.
In 1974, when Jeff Lowe and Mike Weiss completed the FA, Bridalveil Falls was considered one of the most difficult water-ice routes in America. The route was suddenly in high demand, bringing increased traffic and with it, a tangle of land rights that closed the route for much of the time since.
Now, thanks to tireless efforts by members of the Trust for Public Lands and San Miguel County, with assistance from the Access Fund and Telluride Mountain Club, a deal has been struck with the Idarado Mining Company, the property owner of land on and around the falls, again allowing legal climber access. Steve Johnson, Access Fund regional coordinator, calls the agreement "a pleasant surprise to County officials and local climbers alike."
Negotiations between town officials and Idarado for climbing access began in 1991. An easement was approved in 1992, but, due to insurance issues, not enacted until 1997. Over 300 climbers registered to climb the falls that season, though Johnson believes many more climbed it. By that time, poaching had become the norm.
Johnson, an attorney, has backed access to Bridalveil Falls since joining negotiations in 1992. A self-denoted "Bridalveil virgin" until legal access was granted in 1997, Johnson had kept busy by establishing the FA of nearby Ingram Falls with Robert Warren in 1996. His efforts to open the ice climb in 1997 won him the Access Fund's Sharp End Award.
"With Bridalveil Falls re-opening, legally accessible ice climbing in the Telluride region has been restored to world-class status," Johnson said.
With this access comes responsibility. The latest agreement carries specific rules with it, and failure to adhere to them could result in yet another closure. Climbers must register at a kiosk before and after climbing, only descend via the established rappel route and avoid the power house area at the top of the cliff.
"It is important for climbers to remember that this license can be revoked at any time," stressed Brady Robinson, Access Fund executive director. "Too many people have worked for too long on opening up Bridalveil Falls for ice climbers to have one or two careless people ruin it for everyone. Our combined efforts can help keep this landmark climb open for years to come."
ACCESS: Drive east out of Telluride toward the Pandora Mill. Park by a fence marking the Pandora Mill property line and hike County Road K69 for two miles to the route's base.
GEAR: Double 60-meter dry-treated ropes, ice screws, slings, extra cordage for V-threads. All protection must be removed.
ROUTE: Access is restricted only to Bridal Veil Falls. The climb is four pitches, though it can be done in three by doing one short pitch to where it gets steep, followed by a 200-foot pitch up the steepest section to reach a good stance, leaving one final short pitch to exit.
DESCENT: Do not anchor off the porch or wood structures at the top. Use the rap anchors to the climber's right. Spotting the middle rap anchors can be tricky. For a complete list of rules and a route map, visit www.sanjuaniceclimbs.com.


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